Swine Flu news and updates thread

This is exactly what I mean about overkill.... The headline is " Swine flu: twenty-five possible cases reported in Britain"

The bullitin text is as follows.......... In a statement to the Commons, Alan Johnson said that three patients were undergoing specialist testing and
another 14 were being monitored at home. None has yet been confirmed as suffering from the virus.

Eight people who came forward with swine flu-like symptoms have been shown not to have the condition, which has now killed more than 100 people in
Mexico.

Question?...what are they playing at. This is scaremongering in the extreme !

Originally posted by celticniall
I haven't read all the posts and threads....but just to throw it out there....

on the subject of why deaths are occurring within the Mexican population and no where else.....could this possibly be a targeted test of a virus that
just kills a particular race or specific group of people?

Is this a first test in a virus that kills only the selected population?

Keep in mind, these are the early stages... Should there be no other deaths in the next 24-48 hours than you may very well have a good point here.

Also keep in mind out of the 1,600 or so people 103 have died... so about 1/16 confirmed have died so far. It's still under 100 confirmed throughout
the rest of the world.

I believe that there have only been deaths in Mexico because that was the area first affected and has had it spreading for the longest amount of time.
Also, their health care and basic hygiene is lower than the other areas with confirmed cases.

I think we will see deaths in other countries. Mexico had a 3 week head start on everyone else.

A flu virus that has killed at least 20 people in Mexico now has health workers on alert here in the Valley.

There are now eight confirmed cases of the swine flu in California and Texas. Five of them are from the San Diego area and health officials are now
scrambling to determine if the cases in Mexico are linked in any way to the cases in the U.S.

Health officials in Mexico have confirmed 20 deaths but believe there may be as many as 60 and nearly 1,000 are sick. They believe it’s a new strain
of the virus that may be passed from human to human.

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